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Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence Of Mars’ Primitive Continental Crust

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Igneous clast named Harrison embedded in a conglomerate rock in Gale crater, Mars, shows elongated light-toned feldspar crystals. The mosaic merges an image from Mastcam with higher-resolution images from ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP/U. Nantes/IAS/MSSS

LANL News:

  • ChemCam instrument shows ancient rock much like Earth’s

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth’s granitic continental crust rocks.

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Letter To The Editor: Former LANL Physicist Discusses Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

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By DOUGLAS REILLY, Ph.D.
Retired from LANL, US DOE, IAEA, and EURATOM
 
I realize that the Los Alamos Daily Post usually does not cover national news. However, I believe most of its readers are aware of the Iran nuclear talks and Israel’s, the United States’ and the world’s desire that Iran not develop nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, very little is heard about Israel’s hundreds of nuclear weapons (atomic and hydrogen) and its ability to deliver them anywhere in the world, including the USA.

My wife, Dotty, and I are residents of Los Alamos. For 38 years I was employed as a physicist in Los Alamos

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Los Alamos Girl Scout Aids Sea Turtles In Panama

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Jennifer Necker of Los Alamos completed the NAUI Open Water Certification training while volunteering for conservation work this summer in Panama. Courtesy photo

Jennifer Necker of Los Alamos spent 14 days volunteering in Panama in conservation efforts to protect endangered sea turtles. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Jennifer Necker of Los Alamos spent 14 days volunteering in Panama in conservation efforts to protect endangered sea turtles and exploring new depths while learning to scuba dive coral reefs.

During the last week of June and first week Read More

Neutrons Find ‘Missing’ Magnetism Of Plutonium

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Doug Abernathy, left, ARCS instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Marc Janoschek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, prepare their sample for experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source. Photo by Genevieve Martin/ORNL.

 

LANL News:

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.

The advances that enabled the discovery hold great promise for materials, energy and computing applications.

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Three New Mexico Cities Among Top Five U.S. Metro Areas For Export Growth

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BUSINESS News:

  • Las Cruces and Farmington Top Two, Set Records; Santa Fe in Top Five

SANTA FE — Today, Gov.  Susana Martinez announced that Las Cruces, Farmington and Santa Fe rank among the top five metropolitan areas in the nation for export growth.

Las Cruces and Farmington – which rank No. 1 and No. 2 in the nation, respectively – also shattered records for export growth, with more of their businesses exporting more products than ever before. Santa Fe ranks No. 5. The report was released by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“I’ve always said that if we provide an environment that is friendly Read More

New Mexicans To Ride The Havana Express

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NMJW News:
 
History is being made with a group of New Mexicans traveling to Cuba for the first time since the US legalized travel there earlier this year.
 
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop is sponsoring a trip to the land of Rumba, Ritmo and Rum with the theme “Havana, Then and Now.”
 
Cuba is the birthplace of the Cuba Libre, the Cha-Cha, Mambo and Latin Jazz and travelers on the Jazz Workshop tour can drink in the rhythmic music for seven days and six nights starting March 16th through March 21st 2016.
 
This is the first organized trip to Havana from the New Mexico Jazz Workshop
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Los Alamos Scientist Claudia Mora New President Elect Of Geological Society Of America

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Los Alamos Scientist Claudia Mora

LANL News:

The Geological Society of America (GSA) recently tapped Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Claudia Mora as president elect.

Mora is a stable-isotope geochemist whose research spans the traditional fields of geology, soil science and climate science. At Los Alamos, she heads the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division’s (EES) largest group, Earth System Observations. This group’s research is broad and far-reaching, intersecting geology, ecology and atmospheric sciences.

“GSA welcomes Dr. Mora and we are confident that she will Read More

African Prince Performs In Los Alamos At ScienceFest

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His Royal Highness Prince Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa

COMMUNITY News:

Los Alamos will receive a visit from royalty July 13-18 – an African Prince along with traditional South African performers coming to the town to share an energetic dance performance with live music July 15 and 18 at ScienceFest.

His Royal Highness Prince Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa and his performing group, Izingane Zoma, were invited to perform July 10-12 at the International Folk Art Festival in Santa Fe.

This is not the Prince’s first visit. This time last year, he was traveling with another South African performance Read More

New Research On Human Ability To Smell Odors

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Courtesy/ASU

ASU News:

  • ASU Researcher Disputes Claim that Humans can Distinguish One Trillion Odors

Assistant Research Professor Rick Gerkin

TEMPE, Ariz.—An Arizona State University researcher is calling into question recent findings that the human nose is capable of distinguishing at least 1 trillion odors.

Rick Gerkin, an assistant research professor with ASU School of Life Sciences, says the data used in a study made public last year does not support this claim.

According to Gerkin, this is important because findings from the 2014 study published in the journal Science are already Read More

Company Trains World’s Largest Neural Network

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TECHNOLOGY News:
 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Digital Reasoning, a leader in cognitive computing, today announces it has trained the largest neural network in the world to date with a stunning 160 billion parameters.
 
Google’s previous record was 11.2 billion, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently trained a neural network with 15 billion parameters.
 
The results of Digital Reasoning’s research with deep learning and neural networks is published in the Journal of Machine Learning and Arxiv alongside other notable companies
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